Catbert

What fantastic job! Castle road, in Portsmouth. This was a road, then an LTN. Now it’s just a properly done, pedestrianised street. With a degree of harmonised design. And no tarmac! No white upvc! This is what politics is about. Making places better.

Somehow despite all of Russia’s economic and technological dysfunctions, they almost always manage to be an upper tier great power. It’s baffling really.

Zack Polanski’s own family told me: 'If the Zionism-is-racism motion is passed it will make the Greens the most anti-Semitic party in British history since Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists,' said a second relation. 'The idea of it is one of the most sickening things I've heard in a long time.' A third family member said: 'The mad thing is that he's gay, he's Jewish but he's cosying up to people whose ideology is the complete antithesis of everything that he's supposed to stand for. It's like he's a chicken, telling us to vote for KFC!’ Ironically, the Green Party press office - apparently without irony - told me it would be antisemitism to publish this. Full story 👇🏼

"Israel is the Jimmy Savile of nation states" Alexi Sayle

Aaron, the half-Iranian with no basic knowledge of the steel industry in Iran or the Persian language, makes fun of an imaginary caricature when he could just look in the mirror if he is looking for someone clueless about Iran. Iran’s steel industry began way before the 1979 revolution; the largest steel company was planned in 1975, and the second and third were fully operational for years before the revolution. Aaron sees Islamic Republic propaganda and can’t help himself but to promote it.

Thatcher inherited a Britain where the state owned everything from steel mills to telephone lines. Unemployment hit 11.9% in 1984, inflation ran at 18% when she took office, and strikes paralyzed entire industries for months (the three-day work week wasn't a lifestyle choice). She privatized British Telecom in 1984, British Gas in 1986, and rolled back union power that had strangled productivity for decades. The results speak louder than any economic theory: Britain's GDP per capita rose from $10,000 in 1980 to $19,000 by 1990. Critics still blame her for "inequality" - missing the point entirely. You can't redistribute wealth that doesn't exist first. The alternative wasn't some egalitarian paradise... it was Argentina.